Tax an incentive to stop polluting

July 2, 2012, midnight

MIKE Burston states, regarding the carbon tax, the plan is to artificially manufacture and price emission credit certificates while compelling us to pay for them, stating this is a new form of financial slavery.

Tax an incentive to stop polluting

MIKE Burston states, regarding the carbon tax, the plan is to artificially manufacture and price emission credit certificates while compelling us to pay for them, stating this is a new form of financial slavery. (The Border Mail, June 16).

The reality is that the government has assigned a value on the carbon that polluters dump into the atmosphere.

Because it will now cost producers to “dump” this gas they will look for ways to not produce this waste in order to avoid the tax rather than pass the cost on to us.